Kenneth Jones Playbill On-Line Fri Jul 18, 2:25 PM ET O'Day, seen on TV's "Making the Band 3," plays the show's resident princess opposite former "Making the Band" star Ashley Parker Angel as Link Larkin through Aug. 31. The actress-singer was a child performer who appeared in musicals in regional theatres. She entered an MTV reality show contest, "Making the Band 3," succeeding in the formation of the platinum selling group Danity Kane, the first female group in Billboard history to have both their debut and sophomore albums enter the main charts at No. 1. O'Day has traveled the world serving international charities, and recently founded an AIDS educational charity, F.A.N. and a clothing line, heartonmysleeveshop.com. George Wendt stars as Edna Turnblad in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical. In Hairspray, "it's 1962-the...
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